Friday, July 10, 2020

Day 160 Retrospective: Positivity in Massachusetts

The intertubes have been reconnected to PlagueBlog Headquarters, so we can upload our surprisingly large cities and towns maps again. For the week of July 8th, there were subtle changes to the MDPH's PDF that threw R for a bit of a loop, plus an intentional change to the percent positivity reporting: it is now averaged over the past two weeks rather than reported for the week in question. It's unclear whether this was just an impromptu smoothing effort, or was prompted in some way by the ongoing drop in positive tests. The drop is real, though; all positivity rates are below 12% and most are under 5%.
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Massachusetts cases were up a quarter of a percentage point again.

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